Anyone try a G13?

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Well saw the thread with the G11 and G15 used for macros. Im wondering if anyone has tried the G13? I was thinking of getting a G11, its about $90 here. Then I was in there and saw next to it a G13. Which is a mini keyboard on the side with 22 G buttons. Now there is a joystick and 2 more buttons on the bottom where your thumb would be. Wondering if those could funtion as alt/cntrl. Thus giving you 66 macros without doing anything crazy.

And if I got that when I do play on laptop, i wouldnt be short keys, it has onboard memory for macros, (if you use thier software). Just wondering if UO would recognize it etc.

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Well saw the thread with the G11 and G15 used for macros. Im wondering if anyone has tried the G13? I was thinking of getting a G11, its about $90 here. Then I was in there and saw next to it a G13. Which is a mini keyboard on the side with 22 G buttons. Now there is a joystick and 2 more buttons on the bottom where your thumb would be. Wondering if those could funtion as alt/cntrl. Thus giving you 66 macros without doing anything crazy.

And if I got that when I do play on laptop, i wouldnt be short keys, it has onboard memory for macros, (if you use thier software). Just wondering if UO would recognize it etc.

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if the 22 button pad has a usb and not hard wired in the keyboard it would be an awesome add on for a laptop....

The G-13 is a USB device and works great with or without the G-11, G-15, or the new G-19. As I understand it - the macro's are saved in the software for the device so you will have to either copy the "profile" to your laptop - or reprogram the macros for use there.

I've only had mine a few weeks or so - but I do love it so far.

List price was $79... found on sale right at Fry's on Christmas Eve for $49... with an additional $20 rebate. I could not pass up $29 for the G-13.

the jump in there is because ctrl alt f4 and f5 being macros for setting my display profiles (yes, alt f4 is not a problem as long as you set it up as an ingame uo macro, window wont close once its set, will close however while none is set)

now i set myself up like that. thumb of left hand on ctrl and shift. after a while you can press your thumb down to either hit ctrl, shift or ctrl & shift and still be able to use the rest of your hand to access any g key as well as the numbers 1-4, the button left of the 1-key, q,w,e, a and s without moving your thumb. and that right there is a possibility to have 112 macros. on some hybridtemplates, i actually managed to have all of them set up to do something. takes a while to get used to having that many macros, but specially when organising them as in ctrl for offense, shift for defense, shift&ctrl for alternate, g1-g6 for weaponrelated, g7-g12 for castingrelated (sometimes more keys required), g13-g18 on objectrelated things, its quite easy to learn, remember and use.

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Yeah, I know its doable. The g13 is a seperate keyboard via USB. Since there are 22 keys, it wouldnt be hard to hit a good number of keys. It fits the hand pretty good (was in bestbuy today). I think ill pick it up. My desktop is coming sometime with a G11. But this is a nice add-on for laptop, and if I get a good feel for it, could use it instead of G11 buttons. But meh, we will see.

I think ill use a lot of macros. Since every template needs a different set of macros. From Scribe mage, to necro mage, scribe+necro mage, parry mage, ninja mage, pure mage, let alone 2 accounts and a dexer in there.

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Looking into it more there are 3 profiles you can change on the fly, so thats 75 macros. Now if you can use program to make thumbs cntrl, and alt etc, thats a lot of macros, LCD, and USB. hmm

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Well I play a mage and I probably have more macros then most do. And I dominate on my standard keyboard. I really don't see why anyone needs more keys to be honest. And usually it's dexers using the fancy keyboard and I doubt they have half the macros that I do.

the jump in there is because ctrl alt f4 and f5 being macros for setting my display profiles (yes, alt f4 is not a problem as long as you set it up as an ingame uo macro, window wont close once its set, will close however while none is set)

now i set myself up like that. thumb of left hand on ctrl and shift. after a while you can press your thumb down to either hit ctrl, shift or ctrl & shift and still be able to use the rest of your hand to access any g key as well as the numbers 1-4, the button left of the 1-key, q,w,e, a and s without moving your thumb. and that right there is a possibility to have 112 macros. on some hybridtemplates, i actually managed to have all of them set up to do something. takes a while to get used to having that many macros, but specially when organising them as in ctrl for offense, shift for defense, shift&ctrl for alternate, g1-g6 for weaponrelated, g7-g12 for castingrelated (sometimes more keys required), g13-g18 on objectrelated things, its quite easy to learn, remember and use.

i know. but without hiding, you need a few more things than a smokebomb macro for defense
i would have showed you all my macros thoo, but you always disappeared so damn quickly, i couldnt even hit one macro quick enough ;P

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